Hak Ja Han
May 24, 2015
Manhattan Center, New York City
Now is the season when green leaves emerge. I sincerely pray that the dreams that you blessed families all have can come true in the way that vegetation grows. The three years since True Father’s ascension can be seen as a tremendously long time or as a short period depending on how you look at it. Providential history has brought about miracle-like results that have enabled us to surpass fifty years of mission history.
Within one world, there must also be one language centered on parents. What language do True Parents use? You must study.
FFWPU International President Moon introduces True Mother at the Manhattan Center in New York
I was able to meet members in Europe up close during the events commemorating fifty years of mission work there. The East European bloc was communist and under the rule of the Soviet Union during the cold war, making it quite difficult to enter in order to begin mission work. Fortunately, going through Austria was a way into the communist bloc. Many European members, particularly those from Germany and Austria, worked on the front line of the mission field then. I was able to meet members that survived Mission Butterfly, an undertaking that only missionaries knew of. I became keenly aware of how difficult, dumbfounding and bitter God’s providential history of re-creation was as I thought of that providential history.
For an olive tree’s roots to grow takes fifteen years. However, once an olive tree has rooted itself and adjusted to the environment, its lifespan can surpass two thousand years.
Today, we can still find trees that existed in Jesus’ time. In the same way, European members, centered on Austria, faced all sorts of difficulties for the past fifty years and yet we see that they have grown roots, confidently and deeply. A tree that has roots that take fifty years to grow is more likely to survive any kind of natural disaster than a tree that has roots that take fifteen years to grow. Listening to the testimonies of older members, meeting them and the second- and third-generation members that are their “fruit,” I felt that hope exists in Europe at this point as it says farewell to the past fifty years and sets off on a new fifty years. For this reason, I emphasized the need to change our lives for the future, so that today and tomorrow are different from yesterday.
This year marks seventy years since Korea’s liberation, seventy years since the United Nations’ establishment and sixty years since Austria’s independence, as a neutral state. From the view of principled and providential numbers, all these numbers correspond well with one another and with the speaking tour schedule.
Use your fortune for others
While thinking of the United States, I contemplated what I should convey to members during my visit. Europe and the United States are in a restored Cain–Abel relationship. What did Jacob do when he returned to his hometown after going through his twenty-one-year course? He offered his entire fortune to his older brother.
America now needs to grow a bit bigger.
The work of Heaven’s providence brought the United States into existence to help humanity welcome the returning Lord.
Shin Yuh nim, Hyo Jin nim’s daughter singing at the memorial before True Mother spoke
Heaven went through a painful four thousand years to send the Messiah through the people of Israel in order to save fallen humanity. Yet, what was the result? He died on the cross. They could not fulfill their responsibilities.
What kind of indemnity did the people that had failed to fulfill their responsibilities pay? You know well what the indemnity was.
The two thousand year-history of Christianity was a history that lost its center. This is why Christian history and culture went through a raggedy course. For this reason, Puritans immigrated to the Americas in the seventeenth century, in search of freedom of religion, the freedom to attend God freely without being tied to any system.
Through the Puritans, the United States received blessings. You did not receive the blessing so that you would live well as individuals.
You did so to welcome the True Parents, who are God’s hope and humanity’s hope. This was God’s dream and the dream that fallen humanity has cherished. However, the way has not been smooth. God conducted providential history by working through the central figures he set up.
What happened when someone failed to fulfill his responsibilities because of a small mistake? In terms of the development of providential history, those that did not fulfill their responsibilities could not enter the providence again. Consequentially, what has happened to the United States, which True Parents forgave and bestowed blessings on? Did the United States attend True Parents? It incarcerated True Parents instead. Is a child that sends his parents to prison a devoted child or not?
Make Korea whole again
The lives of blessed members today, specifically the older blessed members, have passed a half century. This implies that the remainder of your lives on earth has naturally shortened.
Our blessed members must be able to fulfill their responsibilities not only on the family level, but also on the tribal level, ethnic group level and national level. Heaven established the United States as a nation similar in power to the Roman Empire of two thousand years ago, for God’s sake and for True Parents’ sake. Yet, what has happened?
It is falling behind everywhere. Long ago, they said that all roads led to Rome and that the sun never set on the British Empire. The roads leading to the United States are nondiscriminatory. Blessed families!
You should not let go of True Parents. Do you understand?
Hence, for the United States to become a nation that has fulfilled its responsibilities in the world, it must establish Korea throughout the peninsula.
The United States carries the responsibility of leading the establishment of Korea, God’s homeland, as a whole nation. A center is essential in realizing one world, a world that God and all of humankind have hoped for. America’s responsibility is to attend True Parents at the center, and make effort while working toward unity.
I spoke with great confidence when I was in Europe and at the United Nations this time. The United Nations has worked hard to realize global peace and did many other things over the past seventy years; yet, the result is that they have pushed to the edge of a cliff. In my message to the United Nations, I said that it should become an organization that reveals the truth, that we should attend God, our true owner and that this endeavor should begin from the United Nations. Only by doing that can humanity, which is like a tangled skein, have a center and follow the direction of that center, completely unravelling in the process.
Hence, we can become one world. To fulfill your responsibilities in relation to this as blessed members, can you allow a person in your neighborhood, nation or world not know about True Parents? No? You must let others know about True Parents.
Those in the Christian cultural realm have waited for the returning Messiah for two thousand years. They have a great culture but one that has no substance. Theirs is a culture that is like an empty shell. Therefore, to realize world peace and one family centered on God while living in the same age as True Parents, you need to do your best, fulfill your responsibilities as tribal messiahs.
Bringing hope to orphans
The lead singer of Hyo Jin Nim’s Band, which performed after the main event
The one-thousand-day anniversary of True Father’s ascension is approaching. Won’t you go to the spiritual world someday? Your lives in the spiritual world will depend on how you acted, how you lived and whether you practiced true love -- lived for others -- on earth. This means that nothing is greater than letting others know of True Parents. Seven billion people are orphans. What is wrong with letting orphans know who their parents are? This gives them hope. Therefore, your positions in the eternal world will be decided by your actions -- whether you fulfilled your responsibilities and how widely you expanded hope in others.
To think that you want to have comfortable physical lives, a span that is quite short and not longer than a hundred years, just because you are suffering fatigue is not correct.
You should become one with Europe. The same applies between North America and South America. We need to liberate those in the Christian cultural realm as quickly as possible. Think of how unfortunate they are. For two thousand years, though Christians went through many hardships in their own way, they only became empty kernels of grain.
You must let others know the truth. You must guide them to realize that only this truth -- the True Parents truth -- is their hope and the way for them to attain a glorious and blessed position in the future. To realize global peace and one family centered on God, while living in the same age as True Parents, you need to do your best. You can do this by fulfilling your responsibilities. You need to fulfill your tribal messiah responsibilities.
With serious resolve, the United States should now make a new start for the sake of the next fifty years. Those who agree, please show your consent to live in a way in which you leap forward in life with each day being different from the one before.